Clothes-prop.



T. W. ARTER.

CLOTHES PROP.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 16, 1915.

1,171,300. Patented Feb. 8,1916.

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THOMAS w. ARTER, or BELLAIRE, OHIO.

CLOTHES-PROP.

Application filed October 16, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. ARTE-R, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bellaire, in the county of Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Props, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improved clothes prop, one object of the invention being the provision of a telescopic prop of two sections, each section of which is provided with a guiding strap, which in.

turn carries a locking device, where the sections may be locked when extended or collapsed.

A further object of the present invention is the provision of an adjustable clothes prop, which is simple, inexpensive and durable in construction, and which is also thoroughly efiicient and practical in use.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure l is a side elevation of the prop extended. Fig. 2 is a similar view on an enlarged scale, with the intermediate portions broken way, of the prop collapsed. Fig. 3 is'a horizontal transverse section taken through one end of the prop when folded as shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 1 designates one section and 2 the other section of theprop.

Two guiding and locking carrying devices 3, one to each section is employed, and each device is made from a single piece of fiat metal formed to have the apertured terminals 4, which by means of the screws 5,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1916. Serial No. 56,196.

permit the device to be attached to either section, so that the other section may slide upon one section and between it and the open portion of the device. Thus with two of these devices the sections are supported at two points at all times, and a very rigid prop is thus provided regardless of the distance of extension.

In the ends of one or both sections is provided a slot 6, which acts to receive the clothes line, and also to provide a means to grip the ground to prevent the slipping of the props. This slot also provides a receptacle for the binding end 8 of the thumb screw 7, which is carried by each device 3. This screw assumes this position only when the sections are collapsed, and, as this is a position in which the prop is placed in when not in use, the screw does continually mar the wood of the section by gripping.

What I claim as new, is:

A clothes prop comprising a pair of bars of uniform width and thickness arranged parallel with each other, each bar being formed with an outer bifurcated end, a pair of reversely arranged split loops embracing the pair of bars and having their ends secured to the inner ends of said bars, and adjustable set screws threaded in the loops to register with the bifurcations in the outer ends of said bars for engagement therein and also to bind the bars together between the ends thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

THOMAS W. ARTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

